Last Saturday I did the unthinkable and deleted my
entire blog folder. Everything related to my blog, and collection, was gone in
one click. I was copying over my files to my external hard drive to archive
them and I thought I had just made a shortcut on my external hard drive, so I
deleted the icon, turns out I had moved the entire file over. It was no longer
on my PC and when I deleted it off the hard drive it was deleted permanently.
I went on a frantic search to see if I could find any
portion of the files on my PC, no luck. I loaded up a restore from last week
and the files weren’t there, restore points do not save Excel, Word or .psd
files.
My entire Griffey PC Excel sheet, over 1600 cards
carefully listed, gone. My Mini-PC Excel sheet with my Ryan Bader, Jay Buhner,
Allen Iverson, Steve Largent, Edgar Martinez and Gary Payton collections, gone.
My Wants List Word doc with nearly 2000 cards, gone. All my custom cards, gone.
Blog image files, gone. I had dozens of custom cards that I had planned to send
as TTM including my entire The Simpsons Homer at the Bat set I spent well over
100 hours meticulously hand illustrating 11 cards in Photoshop just poof. In
all honesty, The Simpsons and a Terry Crews Autograpics design hurt the most.
At that minute I considered quitting blogging and
collecting. The last few days I have been going through my Griffey cards and
TCDB to re-build The Beast Jr. When that is done, my Mini-PC collection will be
re-built and then on to my Wants List.
I am so overwhelmed.
That's really a bummer. Sorry you're going through that.
ReplyDeleteOh, man, that sucks! I'm so sorry to hear about that.
ReplyDeleteBest wishes in rebuilding all your lists and everything.
There are data recovery tools and people who can recover files from hard drives. As long as you didn't have a very full disk and didn't write any more data to the external (that is where you said the data was that you toasted), then you MAY be able to get the data back, and if not all of it, should be able to get most of it. Sounds like it's pretty valuable to you, so it would be worth the money to get it back. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteI used a free data recovery program a couple of years ago when my external hard drive crashed and it retrieved most of the important files (it didn't get my spreadsheets so I had to start over with them). Glad you're sticking around though...good luck with recovery efforts!
ReplyDeleteOoh, that's a big-time gut punch. I'm sorry to hear that.
ReplyDeleteOh wow. I couldn't even imagine that. The only possible benefit is if you didn't like some of the way you had things organized, this could be a fresh start, but it's such a mountain of a project. Of course that doesn't get back the art work... I feel for you.
ReplyDeleteSo sorry to hear about this. I went through a similar situation a few years ago when my school laptop crashed (I spilled water on it) and I lost over 15 years worth of lessons and files. It was very disheartening. I can't make any promises... but time did eventually heal things for me. Hopefully it will for you as well.
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